Oil-and-gas-support helicopter industry body HeliOffshore has begun research into how helicopter pilots monitor flight instruments by using eye-tracking research.
The Ping ADS-B transponder developed by uAvionix weighs just 6 grams (0.2 oz.). The basic system receives ADS-B position reports from commercial aircraft within a 100-mi. radius using the 1090 MHz data link and reports threats within a programmable spherical volume.
Before the end of this year, Honeywell Aerospace plans to release a new software version for its IntuVue RDR-4000 weather radar that will allow an unnamed airline customer to begin downlinking snapshots of weather activity and threats directly from onboard radar to the ground through broadband links.
Despite key congressional actions over the past 20 years aimed at helping the FAA operate more like a business, the agency’s operational productivity is down while employee costs have nearly doubled, according to an audit by the Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General (OIG).
